Directors
Dr Tom Penfold is Lecturer in African History at Liverpool John Moores University. Prior to that he worked at, University College London, University of Cardiff, the University of Birmingham and the University of Johannesburg. He is an expert in South African poetry and performance culture, and has published a monograph and numerous journal articles. He also contributes regularly to Africa in Words
Dr Adam Levin is a researcher in the School of Literature, Language and Media at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a memory studies and culture and education specialist whose research and teaching centre around how the intersections between memory, art and activism can facilitate social impact and change within communities. To learn more about him and his work, visit his website.
Prof Deirdre Byrne is a Professor of English and the former head of the Institute for Gender Studies at the University of South Africa (Unisa). She is an editor of the academic journal, Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa and a former editor of Gender Questions. She is the director of ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project). Her research focusses on the representation of gender in literary texts, especially in speculative fiction and in women’s poetry. She belongs to the steering group of an international research project on gender and love and is the co-investigator of an NRF-funded research project into South African poetry
